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The teaching of literacy in middle and secondary schools needs to be improved, Education Minister Terry Lister admitted yesterday. Mr. Lister said primary school pupils were performing well in literacy tests but added: ?In the middle schools and seni...
DATE: Apr 20, 2006
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Police are continuing to appeal for the public?s help in locating 55-year-old Gladwin Gilbert of Devonshire.
He was last seen at 11.30 a.m. on Saturday in Devonshire wearing a tan shirt and white pants. Mr. Gilbert is described as light brown skinned...
DATE: Apr 20, 2006
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The Bermuda Regiment will now foot the bill so recruits and soldiers can further their education at the Bermuda College.
The Student Soldier Programme was unveiled on Monday at the Bermuda College by Minister of Home Affairs Randy Horton, Regiment Co...
DATE: Apr 20, 2006
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Nicholas Dill died of a lethal cocaine and ecstasy overdose and did not bleed to death, a leading American forensic pathologist told a stunned Supreme Court murder trial yesterday.
Michael Baden, chief forensic pathologist for the New York State Poli...
DATE: Apr 20, 2006
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Murder-accused Andre Hypolite denied having sex with Nicholas Dill and stabbing the Warwick man in a dramatic interview with Police, an audio recording played to a Supreme Court jury revealed yesterday.
Speaking in a low monotone, Hypolite, told vete...
DATE: Apr 19, 2006
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A report into the state of sports and workmen's clubs on the Island has still to be filed two-and-a half years after it was pledged by Government in the 2003 Throne Speech.
But last night as concerns were expressed about the lack of apparent results ...
DATE: Apr 19, 2006
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Legal arguments yesterday halted the drugs trial of five men accused of conspiring to import cannabis into Bermuda after detailed testimony on Monday by a Police detective about his role in a house search.
Crown witness Det. Con. Walter Jackson was c...
DATE: Apr 19, 2006
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The Centre for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention wants everyone in Bermuda to abstain from drinking next Friday. CADA believes Bermuda is the first country to initiate a ?No Alcohol Day? in the world. Anthony Santucci, chairman of CADA, said he is aw...
DATE: Apr 19, 2006
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A Gombey troupe is flying to England early next month to help celebrate the final game of soccer player Shaun Goater?s illustrious career.
Mr. Goater, who is hanging up his boots after a 17-year stint as a professional in the UK, will play his final ...
DATE: Apr 19, 2006
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A meeting between officials from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and organisers of a planned ?Animal Extravaganza? did not happen, for a second time, because the organisers failed to show up.
A meeting was planned for April 10, a...
DATE: Apr 19, 2006
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